Real Estate

Eric Wu, CEO of OpenDoor, speaks at a conference in 2018. (Photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP Opendoor, an online platform that lets homeowners quickly sell their houses, announced on Tuesday that it will go public through a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings II, a shell company helmed by Chamath

Joseph is CEO of TenantCloud, a cloud-based property management solution that helps landlords maximize revenue from rental properties. getty As a landlord, you might be used to dealing with relative unknowns such as the condition a tenant will leave your rental in or how much it will cost to fix the washing machine — again. There

Across the country, there is currently a limited supply of available homes on the open market. This gives prospective sellers the upper hand in real estate negotiations, so many homeowners are looking to increase the future value of their home even further. With a few strategic home improvement projects, you can not only increase your

Rendering of proposed eco-village in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Murray Associates & The Bridge Former NFL athletes Garry Gilliam and Karlos Dansby have joined forces in a national effort to revitalize underserved neighborhoods by transforming abandoned properties such as schools, shopping centers and warehouses into sustainable, mixed-use eco-villages with housing, retail, co-working, urban agriculture, education centers and

An office build-out at Miami’s new 830 Brickell office tower features transparent glass panels … [+] between work stations, an air purification system above each desk and plenty of live plants to boost oxygen levels. Iosa Ghini Associati How can office buildings be prepped for a post-COVID return by staff? Answers are almost as myriad

HGTV’s Jasmine Roth MediaNews Group via Getty Images With productions delayed due to COVID, viewers are more excited than ever for new content, especially anything filmed before the pandemic. So, Help! I Wrecked My House couldn’t come at a better time. On the show, HGTV favorite Jasmine Roth of Hidden Potential and Rock The Block helps guide homeowners through fixing DIY projects gone

A unit in The Broad Exchange Building in Manhattan’s Financial District, likely to be one of the … [+] city’s last rental-to-condo conversions. The Broad Exchange Building It’s a common situation for New York City renters – their rental building is going condo (or, as was the case a couple of decades ago, co-op). But

More than 14 years in the making, ultra-luxury condominium building One Steuart Lane is getting closer to welcoming visitors in Spring 2021. Located in San Francisco’s lively and scenic Embarcadero neighborhood with views of the Bay Bridge and Ferry Building, One Steuart Lane, owned by Paramount Group, Inc., celebrated its official topping off in mid-August.

Another family moving into new home. getty The future of real estate was thrown into uncertainty by the pandemic, both from its direct effects on how we live as well as speeding up pre-existing trends. To understand the future, we must focus on what real estate does for people. Buildings are not constructed other than

The duplex apartment has three terraces. Elegran Actor Anthony Edwards, best known for roles in the movie Top Gun and TV series ER, is selling his prewar penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Edwards, who played Goose to Tom Cruise’s Maverick in the 1986 Air Force movie and Dr. Mark Greene on the first eight

Boise, Idaho ranked number one on WalletHubs best overall markets getty Here’s WalletHub’s 2020’s best real estate markets. WalletHub recently crunched the numbers on the best real estate markets comparing “300 cities of varying sizes across 24 key indicators of housing-market attractiveness and economic strength.” The current news of how well many markets are doing

Mortgage rates have plummeted yet again getty Interest rates have found a new low. This week, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit 2.86%, well below the 3% threshold that just a few months ago most people were saying would be the lowest they could reach. As we closed out August, interest rates had already come

Real estate is always an easy target for legislators. In the case of the pied-a-terre tax, however, … [+] the drawbacks seem likely to erase any possible rewards. getty The New York State Senate has once again placed New York City real estate directly in its sights. Last year the Senate considered a “pied-a-terre” tax

Putting extra cash towards your mortgage doesn’t change your payment unless you ask the lender to … [+] recast your mortgage. getty If you have extra cash and are considering putting it towards paying down your mortgage early, you should be aware that it won’t automatically reduce your payment. Putting extra cash towards your mortgage

Firefighters work to protect homes in Boulder Creek, Calif., on Friday, August 22, 2020. (Photo by … [+] Dylan Bouscher/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images) MediaNews Group via Getty Images Just before the CZU August Lightning Complex wildfire devastated the area, realtor Lance Hulsey listed a house just outside Big Basin Redwoods State Park.

Taxes are an expense we all have, not really an opportunity. Yet if you play your cards right, tax savings and opportunities can now go together in a big way. The big federal tax bill passed in the closing days of 2017 is loved or hated by some, but few provisions have sparked as much

Kellie Rastegar is Co-Founder and Creative Director at Rastegar Property Group. Getty The home has always been important, but it’s safe to say that this year, the significance of the home greatly increased. Your place of residence is now everything — a home office, a home gym, a safe sanctuary for relaxation and leisure time and

Broker/Owner of Commercial Professionals in Las Vegas for over 25 years, professional speaker and author of The Successful Woman’s Mindset. getty The initial step into commercial real estate is often a challenge for new investors. Whether you already have experience investing in residential properties or this is your very first real estate venture, you likely have a

Arian Nemati is Co-Founder and CEO at ADEx and Ecognitionlabs.com, an AI research and development company. getty With approximately 11% of Americans out of work in June of 2020 and 82% of small business owners reporting they are concerned or very concerned about the potential impact of the virus on their business, it might seem at first glance that

Pixbay One of the familiar refrains of the pandemic is that it is the epitaph of the city. No longer are we working from home, we are now living at work. Consequently, people, like salmon, are retreating to the rural utopias from whence they spawned. Equipped with wifi and a Nespresso machine, they have all